Jus Divinum Regiminis Ecclesiastici

A Pastoral Work on Church Government. According to many historians this well written and well reasoned work was the Westminster Assembly's defense of presbyterianism. Part 1 of Jus Divinum establishes the nature of a divine right and the different ways to determine whether something has a divine right according to the Scriptures. Part 2 takes up what form of church government is established by Scripture to be of divine right. The book espouses jus divinum presbyterianism. The Southern Presbyterian Thomas Smyth called this book "a work of admirable and overpowering argument." In The Church of Christ, James Bannerman said this "work contains an extremely able, thorough, and satisfactory discussion of most of the points relating to the nature of Church government as a Divine institution, and to the power or authority of the Church, its seat and exercise." Church sessions would profit much from studying this work together.